 | Disciplinary 2011/12 Season |
All disciplinary details will be posted on this page including bookings, sending offs and suspensions.
The winners of the
Tony Pierog Trophy for Sportsmanship is decided as follows; Each booking 1 point, each sending off 3 points (if a player is sent off for a second bookable offence during a match the total will be 4 points). If a club is cited to appear before the Committee and any offence is upheld they will be given 5 points for each offence. Minor infractions of league rules will result in a 1 point penalty. The team with the lowest points score at the end of the season will be awarded the trophy.
*there is also a club fine for late results, see constitution and rules for details of fine structure.
Suspensions will start the Friday 10 days after each bi-monthly League Management Meeting. Meeting are always on Tuesdays, the dates are as follows; 12th Oct 2010; 14th Dec 2010; 8th Feb 2011; 12th Apr 2011 and 10th May 2011: Meetings are held at the David Keswick Centre starting 7.30pm. Disciplinary Committee sits at 8.30pm.
Note - details of fixed penalties for standard offences can be found on Constitution and Rules page.
Important note to secretaries, there is no right to appeal a fixed penalty. In addition clubs will be asked appear before the committee to explain disciplinary issues if they exceed 40 penalty points. A player who is recieves 10 games suspension in one season will have to appear before the committee and will recieve a further suspension of minimum of 3 games.
Table for 2011-12 Season
Please note only points for offences listed in suspensions below are shown in the table. Individual bookings are not available at present. These will be added when they are made available by the League Secretary.
Team Yellows(*) Reds(#) Ref.Comm Misc(**) Total
Maxwelltown Thistle 0 0 10 0 10
Morton Thistle 0 1(1) 0 0 1
Lochar Thistle 0 10(2) 0 0 10
Terregles Athletic 5(3) 6(3) 0 0 14
Upper Annandale 0 8(4) 5 0 13
YMCA 5(3) 3(2) 0 0 11
Lochmaben 0 2(1) 5 0 7
Ref Committee -5 points for ref committee for both Maxwelltown Thistle and Lochmaben for fielding ineligible players in the League Cup.
5 points for Maxwelltown Thistle for teamlines offence.
5 points for Upper Annandale - club official fined £40
Does not include offences that under appeal and bookings.
Definitions
Bookings
* Points for Yellow Cards also include additional penalties for players reaching 5/10/15 cautions, Penalty points as follows - 3 points for 5 bookings, 6 for 10, 10 for 15 and so on. Penalty points accrued are shown in brackets for reference. So if a team has the following numbers in their bookings column - 27(3) - that would mean there have been 24 bookings and 3 penalty points because at least 1 player has reached the 5 bookings threshold.
Sendings Off
# Points for red cards are related to offence committed and number of games the offence carries, for example serious foul play gets 2 games hence 2 points, a second yellow gets 1 game so 1 point, etc (actual number of sendings off in brackets).
Referee Committee
If a club or member of a club is called to answer charges relating to a report by a referee or other source and the offence is upheld then the club is given 5 points for each offence. This includes fines, levies etc..
Miscillaneous
** Based on cash fines agianst club for offences such as late results, failure to attend meetings etc. Penalty points are related to the offence. 1 point for each £1 fine. Also includes points for dated supensions ( 1 point per week suspension)
Disciplinary Meeting 24th August 2011
Case 1 - Lochmaben deducted 3 points for playing an ineligible player in match against Maxwelltown Thistle on 20th August 2011, Maxwelltown Thistle awarded 3 points, match score to be deemed as 0-0. Lochmaben awarded 5 disciplinary points in Tony Pierog Trophy
Case 2 - Maxwelltown Thistle deducted 3 points for playing an ineligible player in the match against Morton Thistle on 13th August 2011. Match score deemed to be 0-0. Maxwelltown Thistle awarded 5 disciplinary points in Tony Pierog Trophy
Decision
Maxwelltown Thistle appealed this decision but after deliberation the SAFA appeals committee decided on the 15th December that the appeal could not be heard; and
(a) The appeal was not timeosly lodged in relation to the original decision of the DDAFL from the meeting of the 25th August 2011
(b) The decision of the DDAFL to the deduction of 3 points remains in force
(c) The appeal fee is returned to Maxwelltown
Disciplinary Meeting 11th October 2011
Case 1 - Upper Annandale fined £40 for club official Alan Johnstone using foul and abusive language towards referee.
Case 2 - Upper Annnadale vs YMCA abandoned match 1st October. Committee decision was to allow the result at the time of the abandonment to stand (Upper Annandale 1-2 YMCA). Upper Annandale also fined £50 and had a levy of £25 applied till end of season.
The appeal was heard on on Wednesday 23rd November 2011
Upper Annandale appealed this decision on the following grounds
(1) All other abandoned matches have been replayed
(2) Why now has there been a change to DDAFL committte decisions?
Maurice Sproat attended the meeting on behalf of the DDAFL. Uppers were represented by Robert Smith and AlanJohnstone.
Mr. Smith indicated that the club felt the game had been abandoned as the referee had lost it and was shaking. The club had no qualms about the ordering off of their player but the referee had only given the player about 3 minutes to get changed and move from the side of the field. He felt the decision to allow the result to stand had been unfair as other games in this type of situation had been recast. His club were of the opinion that the committee member who proposed the motion to have the result to stand had benefitted from this decision.
Mr .Smith confirmed that the referee had advised his team manager that the game would be abandoned if the offending player did not leave the area of the pitch. Other games where the result had been allowed to stand had involved fighting with only a few minutes to go. Both managers of the clubs had appealed to the referee to continue the game. The club had challenged the content of the referee's report at the disciplinary meeting but the referee had stood by the content of his report. He accepted that the club had not assisted in ensuring that the offending player moved away quickly.
Mr. Sproat advised that there had been 9 members on the Committee with a vote of 4-2 to carry the proposal that the result has stood. Personally he could not follow the referee's report as it had not stated that the referee had not felt threatened. He had not liked the fact that the referee and the committee chairman had went outside to discuss the case.
Decision
The Committee on full consideration of the submissions made by the representatives of Upper Annandale and the DDAFL decided that:-
(a) The appeal is upheld to the extent that the misconduct report relevant to the abandoned fixture will be referred to the General Purposes Committee of the SAFA for their attention and action: and
(b)Upper Annandale will be cited to appear before the General Purposes Committee of the SAFA to answer specific charges that the club could have brought the DDAFL and amateur football into disrepute by the conduct and of their players, officials and spectators which led to the abandonment of the fixture in questions;and
(c) The DDAFL will be cited to appear before the General Purposes Committee of the SAFA to explain the apparent breach of procedures when dealing with the case relating to Upper Annandale; and
(d)In addition the DDAFL will be further cited to explain their failure to produce a properly completed and up to date minute book; and
(e)The appeal fee is returned to Upper Annandale AFC.
It is not clear from the decision whether the fine of £50 imposed by the DDAFL still applies.
Case 3 - Scott Neil (Lochar Thistle) - Headbutt to opponents chest area - Dated suspension for 8 weeks starting 18th October 2011. Scott is eligible to play from 12am on the final day of his suspension. Complete
Disciplinary Meeting 8th December 2011
Case 1 - Lochmaben to re-play 2 games (vs Lochar Thistle & Maxwelltown Thistle) that they played an ineligible. - Both Lochar Thistle and Maxwelltown Thistle have appealed this decision to SAFA and decicions have been set aside until appeals are heard.
As of the 14th January 2012 Maxwelltown Thistle have had their appeal against this decision accepted by the SAFA and are awaiting a date for the appeal. The decision to replay this game has been set aside and as a result the game result stands. Lochar Thistle have also appealed but due to a postal issue are awaiting a decision on whether their appeal was lodged in time. The SAFA executive committee will make a decision on this matter on Monday 16th January 2012. If the appeal is accepted as expected the decision to replay their game against Lochmaben will also be set aside and the match result will stand until the appeal is heard.
Case 2 - Maxwelltown thistle fined £5 for failing to mark an S in the column for a player who appeared as a substitute.
Suspensions starting Friday Dec 16th 2011 - updated 8th January 2012
Joe Burton (Dynamo Star) - Pushed Opponent - 3 Games - 2 remaining
Steven Richardson (Dynamo Star) -Denying Scoring Chance - 1 game - complete
Laurie Maxwell (Lochmaben) - Abusive Language - 2 Games - 1 remaining
Chris Cloy (Terregles Athletic) - SFP - 2 Games - 1 remaining
Ross Findlater (Terregles Athletic) - Second Caution - 1 Game - complete
Craig Little (Terregles Athletic) - 5 Cautions - 1 Game - complete
Chris Rogerson (Terregles Athletic) - 5 Cautions - 1 Game - complete
Greg Walls (Terregles Athletic) - Pushed Opponent - 3 Games - 2 remaining
Scott Campbell (Upper Annandale) - Second caution + F&A to Ref - 4 games (3+1) - 3 remaining
Robert Chambers (YMCA) - Abusive Language - 2 Games
Paul McCann (YMCA) - 5 Cautions - 1 Game
Leigh Renwick (YMCA) - Second Caution - 1 Game
Suspensions starting Friday Oct 14th 2011
James Boyd (Dynamo Star) - F&A to Ref - 3 games - complete
Duncan Clowe (Dynamo Star) - Second Caution - 1 game - complete
Jim Brown (Lochar Thistle) - F&A - 2 games - complete
Lee Taylor (Morton Thistle) - Second Caution - 1 game - complete
Kevin Alston (Upper Annandale) - F&A to Ref + Second caution - complete
Suspensions starting Friday Aug 12th 2011
Craig Muir (Lochar Thistle) - 5 Cautions + 2nd Caution - complete
William Dempster (Lochar Thistle) - 5 Cautions - complete
Michael McGauchie (Lochar Thistle) - 5 Cautions + Foul/Abuse to ref - complete
Shaun Johnstone (Lochmaben) - 5 Cautions - complete
Keith Houston (Lochmaben) - 5 Cautions - complete
David Bradbury (Morton Thistle) - 5 Cautions - complete
Ross Dawson (Upper Annandale) - 2nd Caution - complete
Kevin Jack (Upper Annandale) - Voilent Conduct - - complete
John Wells (YMCA) - 5 Cautions + Punched Opponent - - complete
Suspensions carried over from April 2011
Lee Renwick (YMCA) - 4 Games complete
Grant Elliot (YMCA) - 4 Games complete
Steven Kirkpatrick (YMCA) - 2nd caution + Foul/Abuse to ref - complete
Suspensions carried over from August 2010
C.Lavan (YMCA) - 1 game (YMCA) complete
Outstanding Suspensions updated 6th September 2011
Suspensions cannot be served if player is not a signed player for a club in this league.
Craig Adamson (unattached) - 4 Cautions- 2 Games
Stephen Fleming - (unattached) - 4 Cautions- 2 Games
Darren McCulloch - (unattached) - Punched Opponent - 4 Games
Lee Navan (unattached) - Offensive to ref - 3 Games
Lee Navan (unattached) - 4 Cautions - 2 Games (5 games in total) (4 games remaining)
Dean Livingstone (unattached) - 4 Cautions - 2 Games (1 game remaining)
M.Rogerson (unattached) second caution - 1 game
T.Jardine (unattached) - 4 Cautions - 2 games
Darren Malin (unattached) - 3 Games -
3 games Craig Lauder (unattached) - 5 Cautions - 1 Game
James Rogerson (unattached) - 5 Cautions - 1 Game
Tony Pierog Trophy Rules for 20010/11 season.
The scoring system for the Tony Pierog Fair Play Trophy has never been witten down and the trophy rules have been at the discretion of the General Secretary since its inception. Usually it has been based on cautions and sendiings off and referees committee appearances but this year other things such as late results etc. have been taken into account.
To make the system totally transparent the rules need to be added to the constitution. The following proposal was accepted by the member teams at the 2009 AGM and will be in force for the 2009/10 season onwards.
Points System for Fair Play Trophy
Caution 1 point
Sending off 1 point per game suspension
(related to sending off offence)
Player reaches 5 Cautions 3 points
Player reaches 10 Cautions 6 points
Player reaches 15 Cautions 10 points
Dated Suspension 1 point per week
(Maximum 50 points per offence)
Referee committee committee
citation that is upheld 5 points
Minor rule infringements
(late results, failure to
attend meetings etc.) 1 point per £1 fined
Any outstanding offences at the end of the current Season and not dealt with until the start of the forthcoming Season, the penalty points, shall be effective for the Season when the offence is dealt with.